Aleks Rudzitis
@aleksrudzitis.com
Principal Engineer AWS Cryptography. Ex Staff Software Engineer at @stripe. I work on things adjacent to cryptography. I spend too much time reading RFC 4880. All opinions are my own.
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Aleks Rudzitis
@aleksrudzitis.com
· Dec 17
I used to write a lot of Java, but now I’m a bit Rust-y 👉👉🦀
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"Are ghost candles a fire hazard?"
Is that a real candle that looks like a ghost or a candle in another plane of existence that looks like a ghost and was lit by a ghost or did the ghost light a real candle in our plane of existence and the appearance of the candle is irrelevant. Help us help you.
Is that a real candle that looks like a ghost or a candle in another plane of existence that looks like a ghost and was lit by a ghost or did the ghost light a real candle in our plane of existence and the appearance of the candle is irrelevant. Help us help you.
September 22, 2025 at 3:57 PM
"Are ghost candles a fire hazard?"
Is that a real candle that looks like a ghost or a candle in another plane of existence that looks like a ghost and was lit by a ghost or did the ghost light a real candle in our plane of existence and the appearance of the candle is irrelevant. Help us help you.
Is that a real candle that looks like a ghost or a candle in another plane of existence that looks like a ghost and was lit by a ghost or did the ghost light a real candle in our plane of existence and the appearance of the candle is irrelevant. Help us help you.
Hot take: we overestimate what actual intelligence is.
"A battle I've already lost is that we shouldn't call LLMs "AI" at all; they are machine learning and not the general intelligence that is implied to the layman by the name."
Couldn't agree more.
I loathe the term "AI" with a passion and wish we could refer to them just as "LLMs".
Couldn't agree more.
I loathe the term "AI" with a passion and wish we could refer to them just as "LLMs".
What I've learned about writing AI apps, so far: seldo.com/posts/what-i...
January 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Hot take: we overestimate what actual intelligence is.
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/me shudders from pcks#11 C API trauma
January 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
/me shudders from pcks#11 C API trauma
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"maybe if you go on eBay you can just find a Thales HSM that costs $60,000, because, in my experience...those make really good shelves."
January 14, 2025 at 4:48 AM
"maybe if you go on eBay you can just find a Thales HSM that costs $60,000, because, in my experience...those make really good shelves."
I’m suspicious of how the conversation keeps getting redirected to the data users are giving to TikTok and not the ability of TikTok to wield influence over political discourse.
The energy on TikTok is like, I’d rather give an explicitly Chinese app all my personal information than go anywhere near Meta.
You love to see it 🙌🏼
You love to see it 🙌🏼
January 14, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I’m suspicious of how the conversation keeps getting redirected to the data users are giving to TikTok and not the ability of TikTok to wield influence over political discourse.
I always appreciate when this point is raised because it is often lost. And it is important to educate folks on this because otherwise they lose trust when the “truth” changes.
I appreciate the preference for science, but to clarify: science makes predictions based on experimental data. There’s no “truth” involved. It’s only “to the best of our knowledge so far”.
January 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I always appreciate when this point is raised because it is often lost. And it is important to educate folks on this because otherwise they lose trust when the “truth” changes.
Okay, I need to set up some centralized monitoring of some home servers. Back in the day I would have reached for Nagios. Is there anything better for a home lab these days? #homelab
January 5, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Okay, I need to set up some centralized monitoring of some home servers. Back in the day I would have reached for Nagios. Is there anything better for a home lab these days? #homelab
Wait so is Peppa Pig a cubist rendering of a pig?
(For real the Peppa Pig toys are so weird because there is no way to make a 3D toy that looks like the cartoon.)
(For real the Peppa Pig toys are so weird because there is no way to make a 3D toy that looks like the cartoon.)
December 31, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Wait so is Peppa Pig a cubist rendering of a pig?
(For real the Peppa Pig toys are so weird because there is no way to make a 3D toy that looks like the cartoon.)
(For real the Peppa Pig toys are so weird because there is no way to make a 3D toy that looks like the cartoon.)
“Transient network glitch”
December 31, 2024 at 4:54 AM
“Transient network glitch”
Seriously considering a Lemur Pro from System 76.
Anyone have anything good or bad to say about it?
Anyone have anything good or bad to say about it?
December 31, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Seriously considering a Lemur Pro from System 76.
Anyone have anything good or bad to say about it?
Anyone have anything good or bad to say about it?
I help guard a book store.
December 31, 2024 at 3:02 AM
I help guard a book store.
I reached “The Sign” episode of Bluey and now I’m in a mood.
December 30, 2024 at 10:01 PM
I reached “The Sign” episode of Bluey and now I’m in a mood.
There are two voices inside me.
One says: “Remember the teaching that all phenomena are fundamentally unsatisfying”
The other says: “It’s been 10 years. Just buy yourself a new laptop. You’re a software engineer. It’s okay to have new tools.”
One says: “Remember the teaching that all phenomena are fundamentally unsatisfying”
The other says: “It’s been 10 years. Just buy yourself a new laptop. You’re a software engineer. It’s okay to have new tools.”
December 29, 2024 at 9:27 PM
There are two voices inside me.
One says: “Remember the teaching that all phenomena are fundamentally unsatisfying”
The other says: “It’s been 10 years. Just buy yourself a new laptop. You’re a software engineer. It’s okay to have new tools.”
One says: “Remember the teaching that all phenomena are fundamentally unsatisfying”
The other says: “It’s been 10 years. Just buy yourself a new laptop. You’re a software engineer. It’s okay to have new tools.”
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You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
December 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
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Every time someone talks about how public wifi is safe to use without a VPN due to things like HTTPS and HSTS, some random person replies with "man-in-the-middle attack" because they don't actually know what that is, and therefore don't understand that HTTPS and HSTS address specifically that.
December 24, 2024 at 4:38 AM
Every time someone talks about how public wifi is safe to use without a VPN due to things like HTTPS and HSTS, some random person replies with "man-in-the-middle attack" because they don't actually know what that is, and therefore don't understand that HTTPS and HSTS address specifically that.
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I was an unwrap() guy,
and she was an err != nil girl,
we were never meant to be.
and she was an err != nil girl,
we were never meant to be.
December 17, 2024 at 6:15 PM
I was an unwrap() guy,
and she was an err != nil girl,
we were never meant to be.
and she was an err != nil girl,
we were never meant to be.
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Amazon corporate IT still requires it for their ~1M users because of various legacy systems. If Amazon are representative of big users then I guess the answer is unfortunately: most of their customers still need it, and making it default is less work.
December 23, 2024 at 2:57 PM
Amazon corporate IT still requires it for their ~1M users because of various legacy systems. If Amazon are representative of big users then I guess the answer is unfortunately: most of their customers still need it, and making it default is less work.
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I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
December 21, 2024 at 7:07 PM
I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
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True luxury is found in the simplest moments.
December 18, 2024 at 8:59 PM
True luxury is found in the simplest moments.
I saw Marcus Eaton and the Lobby open for Train. Liked them a lot more than Train.
Unpopular opinion: People listing the first band they saw in concert should name the opening act for the first band they saw in concert, assuming they arrived on time for that.
December 19, 2024 at 6:25 AM
I saw Marcus Eaton and the Lobby open for Train. Liked them a lot more than Train.
I used to write a lot of Java, but now I’m a bit Rust-y 👉👉🦀
December 17, 2024 at 6:52 AM
I used to write a lot of Java, but now I’m a bit Rust-y 👉👉🦀
Every time I visit family and they’re watching cable tv…the ads are horrifying. People have become numb to the garbage they sit through.
Bonus: my kid gets mad and actually refuses to watch anything on cable.
Bonus: my kid gets mad and actually refuses to watch anything on cable.
December 17, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Every time I visit family and they’re watching cable tv…the ads are horrifying. People have become numb to the garbage they sit through.
Bonus: my kid gets mad and actually refuses to watch anything on cable.
Bonus: my kid gets mad and actually refuses to watch anything on cable.